People are not against their own food stamps, they’re against food stamps for them. Because you know the problem with “them.” They are lazy folks who don’t really want to work for a living, whereas I might be on food stamps or have family members on food stamps, but we deserve them.

The notion of a “deserving poor” is one of the sickest rationalizations of social Darwinism, and it’s been around since at least the 19th Century.